The Empty House - part 4

-Part One

-Part Two

-Part Three

Holmes is quoting Dante's Inferno - there were so many good lines to choose from, but this one had a little bitchiness to it that felt character appropriate.

This is in the Watson's Sketchbook series!

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Dr. John Watson, A Study In Scarlet

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“john watson is an adrenaline junkie who puts up with holmes’s eccentricities and rudeness because he gets to go on adventures” well first of all john watson would walk two miles barefoot over hot coals to hear sherlock holmes rant about the different types of wet dirt so jot that down

The Empty House - part 3

-Part One

-Part Two

"I moved my head to look at the cabinet behind me. When I turned again Sherlock Holmes was standing smiling at me across my study table. I rose to my feet, stared at him for some seconds in utter amazement, and then it appears that I must have fainted for the first and the last time in my life. Certainly a grey mist swirled before my eyes, and when it cleared I found my collar-ends undone and the tingling after-taste of brandy upon my lips. Holmes was bending over my chair, his flask in his hand. “My dear Watson,” said the well-remembered voice, “I owe you a thousand apologies."

(this is in the Watson's Sketchbook series! but it's also a great standalone to send to your friends to illustrate why sherlock holmes is gay)

also - shoutout to @haedraulics for doing a sketch of mid-hiatus Holmes with long hair that captivated my heart so much I needed to include that idea!

Seeing a trigger warning for sh and wondering why Sherlock Holmes needs to be censored then realising what the trigger warning is actually for.

I once created a Pinterest board named "SH" and wondered for like 10 mins why the app was so insistent on showing me a big mental health recourses message. Like ok alright you called me out but surely being a little too much into a fictional detective from the 1800s can't be THAT much of a concern?????

It also had the phrase "pins about this topic can be upsetting to people who view them" like jeez have you tried not being a hater🙄

Actually screaming about this oh my god

The author 's barely disguised

Their mustache is peeling off

And he would’ve gotten away with it too, if it weren’t for you meddling kids!

The Empty House - part 2

"I struck against an elderly deformed man, who had been behind me, and I knocked down several books which he was carrying. ... I endeavoured to apologize for the accident, but it was evident that these books which I had so unfortunately maltreated were very precious objects in the eyes of their owner. With a snarl of contempt he turned upon his heel."

THE EMPTY HOUSE, part 2 - (part 1) - Several reunions, which do not go exactly to plan.

This is in the Watson's Sketchbook series!

i can't believe arthur conan doyle wrote this scene

Lately, I've found it very difficult to get out of bed in the mornings. So I've come up with a plan. Here it is:

I made a not at all weird little cut-out of Holmes from the 'What is it, a fire?!' scene. I am going to put it up on the shelf next to my bed and put my phone behind it. When my alarm goes off, I will have to sit up to reach my phone. I will then have to look at cardboard Holmes and I will a) be so amazed by his beauty b) have a 'do it for him' moment c) be so baffled by my own silliness that I will immediately be wide awake and get out of bed. Wish me luck.

I have to remember to put him away before I receive any visitors though because I feel like this is the kind of thing where an I CAN EXPLAIN doesn’t actually do anything to clarify the situation. Also I’m a coward

Ah and he’s glued onto the back of a tofu package because that’s the only piece of cardboard I had

@nthattemptatit omg XD I should try to get a patent!

This is absolutely amazing and epitomises what I love about the internet and my own little corner of fandom, thank you for sharing the pure silliness.

It has reminded me of my school friend circa 2010 who had a life sized cardboard cutout of David Tennant/the Tenth Doctor blu tacked directly above her bed because she wanted to gaze up at him each night.

Until one night he fell down on top of her and she jumped out of her skin.

Magical Cardboard Holmes might not be able to launch himself onto my bed, but sometimes he slips down from the little box I placed him on:

"I followed you."

"I saw no one."

"That is what you may expect to see when I follow you."

I'm on holiday! :)) And I took Magical Cardboard Holmes with me because he did his job very well these past few weeks (months??), so he too deserves a change of air!

My darling friends @amypihcs, @tyrannosaurusnacks and I took Magical Cardboard Holmes to Italy!!!

(I also pinned my Letters from Watson pin to my hat so I never carried a Holmes without a Watson. Species-appropriate husbandry [haha]!)

Holmes waking people (watson) up at ungodly hours:

Wakes them up while he's already dressed and ready to go practically giggling and kicking his feet; won't take no for an answer; will linger at the foot of their bed and tickle their foot to force them awake.

Meanwhile Holmes when he gets woken up at an ungodly hour:

"GO AWAY"

fellas let’s reblog if you hate Nazis

hes the silliest guy ever. he represses every feeling known to man. hes like. the 2nd smartest man in london. hes a chainsmoker. he loves pillowforts. and cocaine. he keeps getting hyper-realistic wax figures of himself from somewhere?? hes gay. i didn't say a name but he popped into your head didn't he

[ID: a digital drawing of sherlock holmes casually lying on his settee in his dressing gown. his cheek rests on his left hand and his right holds a smoking pipe. his expression is casually smug. the art has a warm hue. /End ID.]

When you're overstimulated and want to go home but the game is STILL afoot.

But imagine you are Dr Watson coming home from Switzerland and suddenly standing in a sitting room that used to be yours, and there is a book he bought and did not bring along and sheet music for a composition you will never hear him play and there are the notes for a case he will never solve and a new summer coat he will never wear and the flowers that Mrs Hudson placed on the table which faded unseen by him and the tobacco that he will never smoke and the concert ticket that expired because when the curtain rose, he stood at the brink of the Reichenbach Falls and you were not there.

So many modern detectives have tried to emulate Sherlock Holmes, and none of them have even come CLOSE to touching Benoit Blanc. That man is Holmes' true spiritual successor. He's a silly little guy. He's gay. He's a drama queen. He has impeccable fashion sense. He loves music. He works with the cops but refuses to work for them. His voice is both goofy and incredibly fun to listen to. He sucks at playing Clue and Among Us. He mopes in the bathtub for weeks when he doesn't have a case. He loves hanging out with The Girls but gets incredibly uncomfortable when women flirt with him. The only reason he can afford his gorgeous downtown apartment is because his husband works a real job.* The only thing he hates more than Rich Assholes are Stupid Rich Assholes. He solved a double (attempted triple) homicide and the thing that made him most upset was plagiarism. He supports women's rights and women's wrongs. He refuses to break the law himself but actively encourages his client to commit arson.

And, most importantly, he and Holmes would fucking love each other. If most of the modern day detectives inspired by Holmes ever met him, he would probably want to kill them with hammers, but he and Blanc would probably end up being penpals and sending each other newspaper clippings about crime or some shit. And I can absolutely envision a teenage Blanc reading the Holmes stories and being like, "Wait, being a silly little gay private detective is a viable career option? Well, I guess I've finally found my calling in life."

Anyway I love the Benoit Blanc movies and I hope they make a million of them

*confirmed by Rian Johnson